Teacher Pang Zhonghua's greatest contribution is to stimulate the enthusiasm of Chinese people to learn hard pen. This contribution and special status must be affirmed. From the point of view of daily standard writing, Pang Zi has certain reference value, but from the point of view of calligraphy art, it is not recommended to learn Pang Zhonghua and other contemporary pen characters.
First, the aesthetics of calligraphy is established by traditional calligraphy, and hard-pen calligraphy cannot deviate from it.
Traditional calligraphy has established the aesthetic standard of calligraphy for thousands of years. Of course, hard pen calligraphy can't leave this standard, and it can't be called calligraphy art just because it is a modern pen. The aesthetics of calligraphy must be found and understood from the traditional ancient posts.
Second, traditional Copybook for calligraphy has many nutrients.
Calligraphy statutes are formulated by traditional ancient Chinese characters, and hard pen characters draw nutrition from brush characters. Although the contemporary pen character has degraded a lot of strokes, it still needs to retain a lot of nutrients such as structure, pressure and brushwork. The most important thing to paste ancient posts with a pen is to learn the structure, that is, to simulate the trajectory of the brush and the structure of the font frame. Lifting pressure can also be solved by the elasticity of the pen (but don't pursue it too much).
Third, the cultivation of writing habits.
You can't accumulate too many hard-pen writing habits, especially you can't learn words with strong personal style, such as Pang. If too many "bad habits" are accumulated, the original pure calligraphy spirituality will almost be stifled.
Fourth, hard-pen attachment.
1, Introduction to Regular Script. The first choice is the Ling Fei Classic, or the Thirteen Lines of Wang Xianzhi, the Tao Te Ching of Zhao Meng, etc. These small characters, easy to use, full of ancient meaning, rigorous structure and rich brushwork, should be the first choice. It is also good for friends to practice Chu body with pens. It's brilliant to press it. You can also try.
2, regular script upgrade. After the introduction of hard pen, we can also consider Yan Ti and Liu Ti, and then consider the difficult ones, such as European Ti and Jade Ti, which are not enough for the basic use of hard pen.
3. In the aspect of running script, it is also good to recommend Lin Wang's Preface to Lanting and Preface to Saint Education, or Tang Yin's Collection of Fallen Flowers. Mainly pay attention to the practice of line strokes and structure, but pay attention to folding and stopping the pen, and don't have to learn it deliberately;
Figure/Pro "Preface to the Holy Teaching" can optimize the hard pen structure.
4. As far as official script is concerned, Cao Quanbei is the first choice, with delicate lines. There are not many things that Han Li can use to learn hard pen calligraphy.
Figure/Hard pen near Cao Quanbei
Five, the choice of hard pen tools
As far as practicality is concerned, hard pen is widely used now, whether it is the back of the pen or the water-based pen, it can actually be used for learning. But because the nib of the water-based pen is a ball, you might as well try a pen with a thicker nib, or a water-based pen, which can change the thickness and the effect is good.